Results for "Leyla McCalla"

Leyla McCalla

Ana Carla Maza, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Rosa Brunello, Jahari Massamba Unit & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 5, 2024

A set with countless flavors and colors from all around the world featuring songs about travelling to the Moon, or traveling sustainably; Afrobeat songs; songs of low simmering groove; songs by cellists; and more.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ghost Funk Orchestra “To the ...

You're The One

By Rhiannon Giddens

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad; You're The One; Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell); Wrong Kind Of Right; Another Wasted Life; You Louisiana Man; If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is; Hen In The Foxhouse; Who Are You Dreaming Of; You Put The Sugar In My Bowl; Way Over Yonder; Good Ol' Cider.

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Leyla McCalla, Peter Erskine, Elvin Bironien, Antares Flare & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 17, 2022

One of the traits that we love most in jazz is its ability to promote encounters and mixtures... and mixtures is what this set is all about.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Leyla McCalla “Nan Fon Bwa" Breaking the Thermometer (Anti/Epitaph) 0:16 Host talks ...

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival 2019

by Doug Collette
June 14, 2019

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, Vermont May 31-June 9, 2019 Prominent among the many of virtues the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival offers its hometown each year is a reminder of the energetic activity that permeates the Queen City of Vermont (and not just at this most wonderful time of the year). Witness ...

Cinque

By Elio Villafranca

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2018
Track listing: Part A: El Rey del Congo – The King of the Congo; Narration 1; Cinque + Narration 2 (Part 1); The Capture (Part II); Canto Ganga de Despedida; Narration 3; Troubled Waters (Part III); Rezo Congo; Maluagda (part I); La Burla De Los Congos (Part II); Tambor Yuka – Saludo Ganga; Madre Agua (Part III); Indigo + Narration 4 (Part I); New Sky (Part II); Narration 5; The First Colony (Part II); 17 Kongo. Part B: The Night At Bwa Kay Man; Palo De Muerto – Llore; Kafou Ceremony; Narration 6; The Night Of Fire; Medley of Congo Songs; Mesy Bondye; Paseo (Part 1); Conga Y Comparsa (Part 1); Live Conga; Canto Ganga a Yegbe de Despedida; Congo Story; Canto Congo A Capella – Maluagda; Palo de Muerto.

Elio Villafranca: Five Islands & A Revolt

by John Ephland
July 21, 2018

The setting was Systems Two, a well-known, state-of-the-art recording studio in Brooklyn. The sessions, occurring over five days in May (7-11) 2017, were set up to record Cuban pianist/composer Elio Villafranca's sixth album, the elaborate and thoroughly rehearsed double-CD Cinque (artistShare), the music previously performed in shows at Lincoln Center in 2015. Present at ...

SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In

by Arthur R George
July 19, 2018

Five years after the jny: San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. ...

WOMAD 2017

by Martin Longley
September 21, 2017

WOMAD Charlton Park Malmesbury, England July 27-30, 2017 The WOMAD global music festival has mostly been immune to bad weather during its 35 year history. World Of Music, Arts & Dance traditionally occupies the last weekend of July, which mostly guarantees a good scorching. There was the notorious ...